Board Thread:Classic DMC/@comment-24907148-20180623205537/@comment-26045423-20190323170546

I guess that after he blew himself up in DMC 1,  it almost destroyed his body, yet he somehow survived it.

It took his body (or what was left of his body) a lot of time to "recover" to the point where he was capable of walking and speaking. He couldnt fully recover as pointed to us by DMC 5 and that's why he split to Urizen and V.

He probably fought against Mundus corruption as well.